Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.

GRANN, David.

Item Number: 124525

New York: Doubleday, 2017.

First edition of the author’s New York Times Bestseller, currently being adapted into a film of the same name directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Jesse Plemons, Leonardo Dicaprio, Lily Gladstone, and Robert De Niro. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page (although not signed), “Desiree – Thank you for keeping this history alive!” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Fontana. Jacket photograph by Matt Richman.

In Killers of the Flower Moon, New York staff writer and #1 New York Times bestselling author David Grann revisits one of the FBI's first major homicide cases: the Osage Indian murders of the 1920s. A film of the same name directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro is currently in production with a budget of over $200 million. "Deeply intriguing... Powerful... Evocative. Its narrative is so prominent that many readers might forget they are learning about a dark, forgotten chapter in American history" (Columbia Journalism Review).